Fortune or Business Week?
I'm looking to subscribe to one. Thoughts?
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or the Economist?
The Economist by far
The Economist and/or the WSJ.
Yeah I'm already subscribed to The Economist guys. I'm now planning on deciding between either of these two - if any? I've heard Business Week is quite good but thought I would get your opinons nonetheless.
Cheers
It's really a matter of personal preference when you're buying the "Big 3." Forbes tends to be more conservative while Fortune more liberal. The one notable quality of BusinessWeek is its timeliness, as it is weekly compared to its biweekly competitors. But I agree that The Economist has great coverage, and it is by far the best for global issues (much like FT's strength vs. WSJ). The one turn-off might be the high price tag even for a subscription price, but it looks like you already subscribe, so that's not an issue. If you don't know for sure, I would recommend browsing the Big 3's websites, and if you're still not convinced, buy sample issues to see how they compare.
You can get a year of Maxim for $10.
Bloomberg Markets is my personal favorite as it is more focused on high finance
Since Bloomberg owns BW now and is integrating a lot of the staff you can expect some overlap with the style/content in the future
BusinessWeek is broke and Fortune is not too hot right now - it has absorbed too much vacuous bland CNN blather, I'm not talking about liberal-leaning anything, I'm talking about the soulless AP-style simplistic reporting.
Forbes, in my opinion, has good, analytical columnists - some stick to specific topics such as markets, leadership, entrepreneurship, or technology and others are generalists such as Steve Forbes. Forbes is very much a pro-capitalism magazine and thus is heavily conservative - though there are a number of liberal columnists too. Also, there are always a wide variety of people writing occasional or regular columns including characters ranging from Nouriel Roubini to Charlie Gasparino to Ron Paul. There is a lot more content on the website than on the magazine, such as interviews with Akon and Warren Buffett.
Also, Steve Forbes has online weekly "Intelligent Investing" videos with financial players such as Hank Greenberg, Henry Kaufman, and Sheila Bair.
Bloomberg Markets. BuzWeek is corny.
My only issue w/ BBG mkts is that most of the content is put up on the bbbg homepage, so I've read it before it gets published.
As everyone has said, the economist is the best choice, but as you already subscribe to that, I guess it's just a matter of which you prefer, and I don't really read either so can't give any advice. If you gave some idea of what sort of content you're looking to get add to the economist, that'd probably help generate some suggestions of higher quality.
Thanks for the feedback guys.
Economist and FT
I subscribe to both and recommend the same to you, but reading any magazine cover to cover is a waste of time. Flip through a magazine, quickly examine if that article/segment would be interesting or useful to you and then read it or move on to the next page.
In my experience, the most interesting things that Fortune offers are insights into big company executives and insights into big companies. It's not really a source for news and shouldn't be perceived that way.
For Businessweek, they sometimes run interesting industry specific stories like oil, or gaming for example. They also run some interesting stories about Global issues that isn't covered in The Economist.
Investing sections from both are garbage and can be quickly flipped through.
Fortune is completely worthless...I paid for a one year sub like 5 years ago and they still send it. I get it for free and I still don't read it...
The WSJ is by far the best publication. FT is great also.
Bring back Trader Monthly, then get that. Otherwise since you have the Economist, I'd go with Maxim
Anybody else notice a decline in quality for Maxim?
I was thinking the exact opposite, maybe my intelligence digressed. I picked up my buddy's this past weekend and it was like what do I want to read about next? Badass Jared Allen from the Vikings? Dude had six sacks this week... Next? Interview with Greenday's frontman about what its like to be a rockstar for 15 years running.
But seriously, Trader Monthly, don't they know Wall Street is back?
Guys, I agree that The Economist has a certain depth that no other magazine has but franckly there is a lot of stuff totally borring, nothing is really summarized, you end up with too much to read man ! I am not a big fan of the format but I recognize it's very well written. I like BW a lot actually, many different subjects well covered, less forcused on general econonmics and more on business applications... I vote for BW...
BWs come too fast and aren't very comprehensive.
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